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16  <info>
17    <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
18
19    <author>
20      <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
21    </author>
22
23    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 285569 2015-07-14 20:10:34Z gjb $</pubdate>
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27    <copyright>
28      <year>2015</year>
29      <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
30	Project</holder>
31    </copyright>
32
33    <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
34      &tm-attrib.freebsd;
35      &tm-attrib.ibm;
36      &tm-attrib.ieee;
37      &tm-attrib.intel;
38      &tm-attrib.sparc;
39      &tm-attrib.general;
40    </legalnotice>
41
42    <abstract>
43      <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
44	a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
45	&release.branch; development line.  This document lists
46	applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
47	release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
48	userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
49	presented.</para>
50    </abstract>
51  </info>
52
53  <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54    <title>Introduction</title>
55
56    <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
57      &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
58      deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
59      upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
60
61    <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
62      which these release notes apply represents the latest point
63      along the &release.branch; development branch since
64      &release.branch; was created.  Information regarding pre-built,
65      binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
66      found at <uri
67	xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
68
69    <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
70      which these release notes apply represents a point along the
71      &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
72      the future &release.next;.  Information regarding pre-built,
73      binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
74      found at <uri
75	xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
76
77    <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
78      &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution.  It can be
79      found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
80      any of its mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or
81      other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
82      <link
83	xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
84	  &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
85	xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
86	Handbook</link>.</para>
87
88    <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
89      before installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
90      <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
91      release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
92      information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
93      to documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
94      &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
95
96    <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
97      features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
98
99    <para>Typical release note items document recent security
100      advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
101      support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
102      contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
103      major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
104      the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
105      between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
106      advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
107      improvements.</para>
108  </sect1>
109
110  <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
111    <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
112
113    <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
114      (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
115      using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
116      procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
117      unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
118      a part of an official &os; release.  The &man.freebsd-update.8;
119      utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
120      connectivity.</para>
121
122    <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
123      base system from source code) from previous versions are
124      supported, according to the instructions in
125      <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
126
127    <important>
128      <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
129	backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
130	files.</para>
131    </important>
132  </sect1>
133
134  <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
135    <title>Security and Errata</title>
136
137    <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
138      Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
139
140    <sect2 xml:id="security">
141      <title>Security Advisories</title>
142
143      &security;
144    </sect2>
145
146    <sect2 xml:id="errata">
147      <title>Errata Notices</title>
148
149      &errata;
150    </sect2>
151  </sect1>
152
153  <sect1 xml:id="userland">
154    <title>Userland</title>
155
156    <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
157      applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
158
159    <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
160      <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
161
162      <para revision="276991">The &man.termcap.5; file is installed
163	as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating
164	<filename>/etc/termcap.db</filename> by default, providing
165	a performance improvements to applications that use the
166	&man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and
167	&man.ncurses.3;.</para>
168    </sect2>
169
170    <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
171      <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
172
173      <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been
174	added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style
175	progress view from one or more input streams.  A corresponding
176	library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para>
177
178      <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
179	updated to support capability mode provided by
180	&man.capsicum.4;.</para>
181
182      <para revision="277434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
183	&man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
184	determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
185
186      <para revision="278968" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
187	&man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
188	<acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
189	type.</para>
190
191      <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
192	library that would prevent a directory from being included in
193	the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
194	has been fixed.</para>
195
196      <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor"
197	sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has
198	been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to
199	dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para>
200
201      <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
202	&man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
203	<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
204	<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
205	directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
206	&man.tar.1;.</para>
207
208      <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
209	would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
210	receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
211	fixed.</para>
212
213      <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor"
214	sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
215	been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
216	a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
217
218      <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
219	&man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
220
221      <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor"
222	sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
223	&man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
224	links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
225	documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
226
227      <para revision="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been
228	updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
229	an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
230	compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
231	utility behavior.</para>
232
233      <para revision="284523">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
234	been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
235	specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
236
237      <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
238	with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
239	directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
240    </sect2>
241
242    <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
243      <title>Contributed Software</title>
244
245      <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
246	&man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
247	3.7.0.</para>
248
249      <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
250	to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
251
252      <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
253	version 2015e.</para>
254
255      <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
256	updated to version 20150515.</para>
257
258      <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
259	updated to version 5.23.</para>
260
261      <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
262	updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
263
264      <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
265	utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
266
267      <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
268	been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
269    </sect2>
270
271    <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
272      <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
273
274      <para>&nbsp;</para>
275    </sect2>
276
277    <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
278      <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
279	Scripts</title>
280
281      <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
282	<filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
283	the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
284	exists.</para>
285    </sect2>
286
287    <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
288      <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
289	Scripts</title>
290
291      <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
292	&man.periodic.8; script,
293	<filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
294	which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
295	the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
296	<literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
297	system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
298    </sect2>
299
300    <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
301      <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
302
303      <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
304	&man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
305
306      <para revision="276686" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
307	&man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include
308	a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as
309	the reaper of child processes and their decendants.</para>
310
311      <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
312	updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
313	failure.</para>
314    </sect2>
315
316    <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
317      <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
318
319      <para revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has
320	been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>.  The
321	<literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
322	evaluated when building the <filename
323	  role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
324	ports.</para>
325    </sect2>
326  </sect1>
327
328  <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
329    <title>Kernel</title>
330
331    <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
332      tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
333      categorized.</para>
334
335    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
336      <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
337
338      <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
339	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
340	been fixed.</para>
341
342      <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
343	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
344	been fixed.</para>
345    </sect2>
346
347    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
348      <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
349
350      <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
351	arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
352	now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
353	configuration by default.</para>
354
355      <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
356	sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
357	<literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
358	multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
359
360      <note>
361	<para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
362	  officially supported by &intel;.</para>
363      </note>
364    </sect2>
365
366    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
367      <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
368
369      <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
370	and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
371	been turned off by default.</para>
372
373      <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
374	&man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
375	increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
376	the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
377
378      <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
379	sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
380	been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
381	using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
382	<literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
383	when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
384	timestamps for these operations.</para>
385
386      <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
387	and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
388	&man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
389
390      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
391	&man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
392	added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
393	&man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
394	A new kernel configuration option,
395	<literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
396
397      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
398	<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
399	<literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
400	default.</para>
401
402      <note>
403	<para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
404	  <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
405	  <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
406	  <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
407	  &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
408      </note>
409    </sect2>
410  </sect1>
411
412  <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
413    <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
414
415    <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
416      device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
417
418    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
419      <title>Device Drivers</title>
420
421      <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
422	been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
423
424      <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated
425	to include improved support for newer Synaptics&nbsp;&reg;
426	touchpads and the ClickPad&nbsp;&reg; mouse on newer
427	Lenovo&nbsp;&trade; laptops.</para>
428    </sect2>
429
430    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
431      <title>Storage Drivers</title>
432
433      <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
434	updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
435    </sect2>
436
437    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
438      <title>Network Drivers</title>
439
440      <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash
441	has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
442	<literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
443	increase in packets-per-second.</para>
444
445      <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
446	to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
447
448      <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
449	&man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
450	been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
451	&man.me.4;.</para>
452
453      <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
454	which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
455	a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
456	analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
457	for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
458
459      <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated
460	to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para>
461    </sect2>
462  </sect1>
463
464  <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
465    <title>Hardware Support</title>
466
467    <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
468      machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
469      as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
470      other sections of this document.</para>
471
472    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
473      <title>Hardware Support</title>
474
475      <para>&nbsp;</para>
476    </sect2>
477
478    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
479      <title>Virtualization Support</title>
480
481      <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
482	been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
483	devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
484
485      <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
486	updated to support &amd; processors with
487	<acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
488	extensions.</para>
489
490      <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
491	updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
492	virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
493
494      <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
495	Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
496	enhancements:</para>
497
498      <itemizedlist>
499	<listitem>
500	  <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
501	    support.</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	<listitem>
505	  <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
506	    support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	<listitem>
510	  <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
511	    fixes.</para>
512	</listitem>
513      </itemizedlist>
514
515      <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
516	&man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
517	offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
518    </sect2>
519
520    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
521      <title>ARM Support</title>
522
523      <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the
524	BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8;
525	<literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has
526	been added.</para>
527
528      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420
529	Octa system has been added.</para>
530
531      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym>
532	option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by
533	&os;.</para>
534
535      <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
536	driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
537	frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
538	<acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
539
540      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex
541	Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para>
542
543      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers
544	have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer
545	(<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access
546	Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial
547	Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para>
548    </sect2>
549  </sect1>
550
551  <sect1 xml:id="storage">
552    <title>Storage</title>
553
554    <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
555      and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
556
557    <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
558      <title>General Storage</title>
559
560      <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
561	&man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
562	replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
563	with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
564
565      <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
566	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
567	non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
568
569      <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
570	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
571	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
572	allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
573	<acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
574	drives.</para>
575
576      <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
577	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
578	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
579	handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
580	<literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
581    </sect2>
582
583    <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
584      <title>Networked Storage</title>
585
586      <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
587	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
588	registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
589	<acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
590	which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
591	targets and portals without requiring active
592	discovery.</para>
593    </sect2>
594
595    <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
596      <title>ZFS</title>
597
598      <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
599	<literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
600	which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
601
602      <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
603	statistics are now visible through the
604	<literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
605	change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
606	&man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
607	<literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
608	&man.sysctl.8;.</para>
609    </sect2>
610
611    <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
612      <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
613
614      <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
615	&man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
616	limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
617	and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
618	to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
619
620      <para revision="282861">Support for the
621	<literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
622	and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
623	partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
624    </sect2>
625  </sect1>
626
627  <sect1 xml:id="boot">
628    <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
629
630    <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
631      boot-related changes.</para>
632
633    <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
634      <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
635
636      <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
637	support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
638	loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
639	<literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
640	&man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
641
642      <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
643	memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
644	has been disabled by default.</para>
645
646      <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
647	<literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
648	the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
649	baudrate.</para>
650
651      <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
652	arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
653	updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
654	<filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
655	default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
656    </sect2>
657
658    <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
659      <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
660
661      <para>&nbsp;</para>
662    </sect2>
663  </sect1>
664
665  <sect1 xml:id="network">
666    <title>Networking</title>
667
668    <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
669      &os;.</para>
670
671    <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
672      <title>Network Procols</title>
673
674      <para>&nbsp;</para>
675    </sect2>
676  </sect1>
677
678  <sect1 xml:id="ports">
679    <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
680
681    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
682      Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
683      installation tools.</para>
684
685    <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
686      <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
687
688      <para>&nbsp;</para>
689    </sect2>
690
691    <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
692      <title>Packaging Changes</title>
693
694      <para>&nbsp;</para>
695    </sect2>
696  </sect1>
697
698  <sect1 xml:id="doc">
699    <title>Documentation</title>
700
701    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
702      Project sources and toolchain.</para>
703
704    <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
705      <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
706
707      <para>&nbsp;</para>
708    </sect2>
709
710    <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
711      <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
712
713      <para>&nbsp;</para>
714    </sect2>
715  </sect1>
716
717  <sect1 xml:id="releng">
718    <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
719
720    <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
721      &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
722
723    <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
724      <title>Integration Changes</title>
725
726      <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
727	Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
728	building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
729	supported boards where a corresponding
730	<literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
731	Collection.</para>
732
733      <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
734	&os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
735	created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
736	the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
737    </sect2>
738  </sect1>
739</article>
740